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• "I think it all starts with a commitment to the university ... the ability to have a clear vision." While we technically agree with Colorado AD Mike Bohn that these are good qualities to seek in a college football coach, we have a humble suggestion: Next time, maybe don't use those words right after firing a head coach two years into his tenure and right before making it outlandishly obvious through further words and sour facial expressions that you have nooooo idea what to do next.

The sporting internet watched with alternating horror and bewilderment as Jon Embree, Bohn and Colorado's president and chancellor made statements and fielded questions on Embree's ousting. You can watch the whole thing here, a fact which may be an indictment of the Colorado leadership in and of itself, read a summary of events here or get the general idea from those of us who watched it unfold in real time:

An emotional Jon Embree at his press conference. You can tell how much the job meant to him.

For a continuing discussion of what went wrong in the Embree regime and where the administration went wrong immediately after that, check out Kyle Ringo's timeline. And if you take anything away from this, let it be that this situation was so poorly handled that it's engendering sympathy for the guy who was in charge while this was happening.